{"id":366819,"date":"2025-12-23T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366819\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:17:13","slug":"knueppel-the-fastest-player-to-100-three-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366819\/","title":{"rendered":"Knueppel the fastest player to 100 three-pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel became the fastest player to score 100 three-pointers in the NBA during a 139-132 defeat at the Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old, the fourth pick at the 2025 draft, reached the landmark in only 29 games when he scored in the first quarter at Rocket Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Utah Jazz&#8217;s Lauri Markkanen held the previous record of 41 games, while playing for the Chicago Bulls in 2017-18.<\/p>\n<p>Knueppel scored five of the nine three-pointers he attempted against the Cavaliers to finish with 20 points, while LaMelo Ball contributed 23 and Brandon Miller 20 for the Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>But Donovan Mitchell racked up 30 points, DeAndre Hunter 27 and Darius Garland 27 with 10 assists for the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers are seventh in the Eastern Conference and the Hornets 12th.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766499433_727_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel became the fastest player to score 100 three-pointers in the NBA during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,12997,5670,2066,17603,39602,23659,5662,12998,32207,85,11898],"class_list":{"0":"post-366819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-brandon-miller","12":"tag-charlotte-hornets","13":"tag-chicago-bulls","14":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","15":"tag-darius-garland","16":"tag-donovan-mitchell","17":"tag-kon-knueppel","18":"tag-lamelo-ball","19":"tag-lauri-markkanen","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-utah-jazz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}